December 2025
The Hub has hosted four research planning workshops to date with stakeholders from each science agency, focusing on progress and outcomes from current projects and identifying future priorities. These sessions brought together diverse expertise to shape the next phase of collaborative research.
Workshop themes included:
Together, these workshops are helping to refine the Hub's research agenda, ensuring alignment with national priorities and industry needs while strengthening collaboration across regions.
The Hub, together with CSIRO and Geoscience Australia, proudly joined the Australian delegation at EU Raw Materials Week 2025 in Brussels.
This year’s program focused on the EU’s key challenges in securing resilient critical minerals value chains, providing a platform for rich discussions and highlighting the important role Australia plays in addressing these global issues.
We extend our gratitude to Hillary Halim, DISR Counsellor in Brussels, and the Australian Embassy team for their invaluable support throughout this busy and successful week.
From a passion for sport to a career in science, Carly Baker’s journey reflects resilience, curiosity, and determination.
After overcoming a traumatic brain injury, Carly pursued chemistry and completed her PhD in polymer science/electrochemistry before joining ANSTO Minerals.
Today, she contributes to the Hub’s project Producing High-Tech Metals and Materials, developing processes to convert tungsten concentrate into a tungsten intermediate for metallisation at CSIRO. Her work bridges academic research with industrial innovation, strengthening Australia’s critical minerals capability.
For Carly, the Hub is more than a workplace, it’s a collaborative ecosystem driving impactful research, advancing sustainable mineral processing, and supporting Australia’s role in the global energy transition.
